The Chrome Team is excited to announce the beta release of Chrome 40 for Android. 40.0.2214.27 will be available in Google Play over the next few hours. This release contains a number of bug fixes and updates to page info/content settings. A partial list of changes in this release are available in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Nexus 5 and 7, after loading any heavy content page, Chrome beta freezes and crashed, reloads the home screen. Process stats on both devices says the average ram usage for this new release is around 1.1GB. Huge memory leak somewhere, switching to stable until fixed. All on Lollipop, Nexus 7 on 5.0.1

Please emergency update! Chrome beta v40 does not work on your operating system Stock Google Edition Android 4.0.4 (Tablet)! After starting, Chrome stops working and force close! I can not use the service!This has not happened never before!

When browsing with multiple tabs (more than 6 tabs) and then switch to another tab it will automatically refresh the web page (very annoying and a waste of Internet data). But it never happens when using the single process mode "--single-process".